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Ernest Jones on Hamlet’s Inability to Act

It would seem that the fact the Ghost appears and Hamlet is able to speak to it is proof enough of the reality of the vision. In t...

Hamlet and Women - a Poor Relationship

his objections are overblown. When Ophelia talks to her father or to the court about her relationship with Hamlet, it sounds lik...

Act II Scene ii of Hamlet Within the Play's Overall Context

In six pages the response of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern to Claudius and Gertrude, the response of Claudius to 'The Murder of Gon...

Hamlet and Psychoanalysis

the circumstances at an emotional level. His mother Gertrude married Claudius less than a month after the murder. Although Hamle...

Arguing Against Reality's Static Absolutism and Indian Philosopher Nagarjuna

with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainst...

Friendships and the Impact of Virtue or Lack of Virtue in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Julius Caesar

both politically as well as personally. For Brutus, virtue was a trait that could never be compromised for it was synonymous with...

Education and Virtual Reality

We now have another way to gain knowledge of the world, through virtual reality (Winn, 1993). Immersion in a virtual world allows ...

The Depiction of Reality in the Age of Global Production

In all cases they may be seen as art that is breaking boundaries as they are seeking to break down social barriers and taboos, dea...

Social Reality as Molded by the City

urban phenomena as boulevards, wax museums, and the public display of corpses at the Paris morgue. Drawing on an immense range of...

Tragic Themes in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Sophocles' Antigone and William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...

Charles Peirce's Account Of Truth And Reality In "How To Make Our Ideas Clear"

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

Racial Impications in The Matrix

A 30 page analysis of this science fiction film. This futuristic film imparts a sense of reality that is enough to bring most vie...

Everyman vs. Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman and Everyman by William Langland are contrasted and compared in this paper. Themes and genre are discussed. Only the...

Pompey in Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper analyzes the importance of the secondary character Pompey in Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare....

Tragic Characters in Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

In five pages Octavius Caesar, Enobarbus, Cleopatra, and Antony are analyzed in order to determine which emerges as the most tragi...

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and the Conflict Between Freedom and Order

In seven pages this paper discusses what needs to be considered when examining the conflict of freedom vs. order in this historica...

Repentance in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper examines repentance in this thematic analysis of The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Five other sources ...

Othello by William Shakespeare and the Significance of the Color White

In five pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of white in this tragedy by William Shakespeare. Four sources are cited in...

Elements of Tragedy in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

This paper examines 3 tragic elements in an analysis of Amanda Wingfield, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, and King Oedipus of Thebes fea...

A Review of House of Breath

A 5 page review of the book by William Goyen. 1 source....

Complex Union of Marriage

does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...

Significance of the Natural World in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper examines how in this comic fantasy William Shakespeare portrays the natural world. Five sources are cite...

Henry the Fifth and Kingship

In six pages this research paper examines the concept of kingship as represented in the historical play Henry V by William Shakesp...

Appetites in Sonnet 118 by William Shakespeare

Shakespeares poetry demands nothing of his readers, the poetry is diminished in proportion to how much less the reader asks of him...

Two Poems Featuring Women by William Carlos Williams

American women's social roles are considered in William Carlos Williams' poems 'Portrait of a Lady' and 'The Young Housewife' in a...

Children's Film Version of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

In seven pages this paper examines how a children's film version of this whimsical comedy by William Shakespeare could be accompli...

Wordsworth, Frost, and Nature

Picking is merely a poem about a man picking apples and sleeping. Many have compared it to something deeper, seeing the sleep as r...

Sonnets of William Shakespeare and Sexuality

In five pages this paper analyzes the sexuality featured in the sonnets of William Shakespeare. Five sources are cited in the bib...

Edgar Allan Poe's Stories and the Doppelganger Theme

In 7 pages this paper examines how the 'double' or Doppelganger theme is featured in the Edgar Allan Poe stories William Wilson, '...

Iago as the Villain of Othello by William Shakespeare

In 7 pages this paper examines Iago's villainy in a psychological analysis of character motives as featured in Othello by William ...